HOW APPLE MADE STEVE JOBS' VISION FOR ITS NEW CALIFORNIA 'SPACESHIP' CAMPUS A REALITY

The building was the brainchild of Steve Jobs, who came up with the design months before his tragic death in 2011.

The incredible lengths Apple went to in making Jobs' vision a reality, from buying a Christmas tree farm in Nevada to buying so many local trees it caused a shortage, have been revealed.

While the office itself boasts elaborate glass canopies, a two-story yoga room, a 4,000-person café with four-story glass doors, and even patented pizza boxes to prevent food from getting soggy, the parkland surrounding it is just as impressive.

David Muffly, the expert dubbed 'Apple's tree whisperer' has revealed the incredible lengths Apple went to in a bid to fulfil Steve Jobs vision - even buying a Christmas tree farm in Nevada.

Muffly said the biggest challenge was finding enough trees, especially as the number rose from Jobs' original 6,000 to the current goal of 9,000.

When Jobs presented his plan to the Cupertino City Council in June 2011, he said that Apple would add to the 3,700 existing trees for a total of 6,000 - but this proved impossible, so new trees had to be brought it.

David Muffly, the expert dubbed 'Apple's tree whisperer' has revealed the incredible lengths Apple went to in a bid to fulfil Steve Jobs vision - even buying a Christmas tree farm in Nevada

Jobs hoped to recapture the lost feel of an area that was once mostly open spaces and fruit orchards.

'The landscape design of meadows and woodlands will create an ecologically rich oak savanna reminiscent of the early Santa Clara Valley,' Apple said in its original proposal.

'It will incorporate both young and mature trees, and native and drought tolerant plants that will thrive in Santa Clara County with minimal water consumption.

800 of the healthiest and most attractive trees were 'boxed' so they could be stored in a corner of the construction site

Apple's tree strategy involved first preserving the best trees already on the site for replanting later.

According to planning documents, Apple removed 3,616 trees from the land before construction could begin.

Muffly and his team selected and stored 800 of the healthiest and most attractive of those trees and 'boxed' them so they could be stored in a corner of the construction site.

A report from the city's consulting arborist, Michael Bench, included photos of a couple of trees from the site being readied for transplantation to these large boxes, and revealed how they were moved.

The pain painstaking process was revealed in an October 2013 report.

'The pipes are driven under the root ball using a pneumatic hammer.

'A large I-Beam will be bolted to these pipes on the 2 sides where they extend past the root ball.

'When it is time to transplant the trees, cranes will affix cables to the I-Beams to lift and move the tree.

'The root balls are being irrigated and will continue to be irrigated on a regular schedule for up to 5 years.'

Developers working on San Francisco's new Transbay Transit Center train station are having a hard time getting trees for the new 5.4-acre green rooftop City Park.

Patrick Trollip, the lead landscaper on the transit project, told the San Francisco Chronicle that Apple has become their biggest obstacle because the company keeps buying all the trees at landscaping centers along the coast.

In a cluster of East Bay nurseries, Apple has been growing more than 4,600 trees, which are nestled in large, wooden boxes

'Buying trees is a surprisingly cutthroat business.

'And it's been especially challenging to locate desirable specimens because Apple has been buying up 3,000 trees for its new Cupertino headquarters.

When Greenspan and Trollip found a tree they fancied they would 'tag it' with a locking yellow tag, so that nobody else — like Apple — could get it.

Eventually all the tagged trees were moved to a nursery in Sunol, where the transbay project team leased 4 acres.'